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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

How to Write An Article in Windows 7?

After reading the title, most would think: "Is he serious? What kind of question is this, frankly stupid? You open a text editor and ... "And that, ladies and gentlemen? Print! And not writing. I'm going to write. By hand.

This idea - not a whim but a desire to quickly step into the future. Two years ago, I would not have believed that I would do in a computer without a paddle-type "mouse". But here - no carpet, no rodent! More user-friendly tool drove less convenient. There was, in a deep philosophical sense, the evolution of human-machine! In this article predict a return to writing.

I will, unfortunately, biased, and explore the possibility of writing the text of one-sided - for example, the features of Windows 7. Fans of Apple and Linux users do not propose to hold holywar in the comments, and share their experiences handwriting - the most interesting, and the purchase of iMac is postponed indefinitely. Set as some Ubuntu, then to set up all night tablet driver, no desire at all.

Operating System Version - Max, therefore possibly some functions described by me, will not be available in less advanced assemblies. So, the guys from Redmond have prepared for the leap into the future? With Windows 7, when you connect the tablet machine comes with a virtual keyboard support for handwriting, and in the Control Panel, hiding two options: "Tablet PC Settings" and "pen and touch input." The latter offers a set of gestures for a pen tablet in combination with a touch screen.

Why do you want a pen for touch screen, which the producers sharpened by human fingers, remained unclear. The gloomy genius Ballmer? The first option is used to calibrate the touch screen and allows you to run a virtual keyboard. More precisely, the application-shifter, able to pretend and keyboard (screen), and "paper" for writing.

Hurry will not - start with the virtual keyboard. I tried two ways: by touch-screen poke your finger (see photo at the beginning of the paragraph), and the second option - to stick your cursor over the letters (a better result, however, by the time I got used and found a point). It turned out not so hot. However, with fast print and on the conventional, hardware, keyboard error missing. True, the print still comes out faster (yet). And besides, who said that the most important work - it's the speed?

Initially, this was a disadvantage, as an unfortunate location of the application window. It hides the left or right on the screen and a little comes out when the cursor is brought to the edge of the display. But here's the problem - sometimes in the province are the buttons interface of any application (browser, for example). And you want to poke a button and you get to "control gestures", which immediately turns around and occupy the lower third of the screen (well, not third, and somewhere in one-fifth of an exact count, but it still interferes, when there is no need in this panel) . I had already wanted to give up writing and turn off the application when the thought of to get into the "Tablet PC Settings" and got the opportunity pinned launch a virtual keyboard on the taskbar next to the language bar. There he lives.

Well, now switch the keyboard to handwritten input and try to write something. Enter text into any application can be: notepad, browser, graphics editor. When writing in Word, there are two options: either to remain a handwritten "cuneiform", or he, if you write on the virtual keyboard is converted to typed text. Print in the document where you have written something, you can. But the letter written by the editor, in fact, just the drawings, which will lie on top of a printed text. Slightly better is the case in OneNote - a tool for creating notes from MS Office. Printed text is divided into blocks that can be placed randomly in the document, and the free space insert notes or comments. At the same time the printed text can emphasize or highlight marker, as many like to do in the present paper documents.

As for an alternative text editor - Writer of a set of Open Office, then write directly to him is impossible. True, there is an article on the internet about inscribing Chinese characters when using Open Office in Ubuntu, but support for the Russian letters in the experiment could not be found. Therefore have to sacrifice the bottom of the screen (one-fifth) for the application of virtual input.

Somehow it seems to me that such tricks can be of interest to the child. In cases where the child refuses to learn the spelling of the standard method is to offer him a way to advanced. Not yet in play Crysis 2! Kalyakat on a computer can be any number. Now that regular, analog, paper will endure, the digital and even more so. The similarity of the e-mail with a drawing like returns us to the point of creation of the first icons. The story takes place in a spiral, and we were lucky (or unlucky) to be at a new round. After all, the sixth production cycle is not far off - there were a whole five years. But the cycles in different times, and finally the historical example of the importance of handwriting.

Being an old man, Nietzsche received a gift typewriter. This has helped to continue the philosopher writing. Losing sight of Nietzsche mastered the blind and print can type text with their eyes closed. It is true that the transition from writing for publication has changed (as Nietzsche thought Editors) style of his work - keep it simple, almost telegraphic. Philosopher agreed with the comments and moved the blame on a typewriter. Like, when we associate a letter written word and the idea of physically, by hand, but any printer (including the keyboard and computer to which the philosopher did not live) is an intermediary between the author and his text. A mediator brings is its change in relations between the two entities, whether the seller and the buyer (growth centers) or author and muse.

I would, of course, blamed not a typewriter, and old age and the increasing madness of Friedrich Nietzsche, but after reading enough of the Internet works - from blogs to online novels, writing for the importance of brain development will not challenge. Let until all this is nothing more than an experiment, but perhaps will soon be able to resurrect the epistolary genre, and we begin to really write to each other emails!

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